Fifth-wheel



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B. P.- GORSUOH.

FIFTH WHEEL.

. 110,354,784. Patented Dem-21,1886,

iNVENTOR 13. 3. Gorsuclx.

ATTORNEYS NI'I'ED STATES PATENT FFICE.

Fl FTH-WHE EL.

SPECIFICATION forming part .of Letters Patent No. 354,784, dated December 21,1886.

Application filed June 21, 1886. Serial No. 205,831, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. GORSUOH,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Martinsburg, in the county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fifth-\Vheels; and I thereon, which form a part of this specification. a

Figure 1 of .the drawings is a representation of my invention, and is a perspective view of the same. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a top View of the base-ring.

My invention relates to fifth-wheels for buggies, wagons, 850.; and it consists'in the construction and novel combination of parts as hereinafter described, and pointed out'in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates thefront axle, B the head-block, and G js a portion of the reach, of a running-gear.

D designates the base-ring or circle of the fifth-wheel, and this base-ring is clipped to the axle by integral arms E E and tie-plates F F, secured in place by nuts G G, which hold the tie-plates firmly against the under face of the axle. The base-ring D is provided in its upper face with an annular V-shaped groove.

H designates the cap-ring or upper annular portion of the fifth-wheel, which is provided with annular vertically-depending side flanges. This part H is provided with an annular middle ring or rib, I, which is made integral therewith and fits the middle V-groove, I), of the base-ring, and equalizes all of the bearings, and prevents the usually greater pressure, strain, and wear upon the outside flanges that occur in nearly all of the constructions in common use.

M designates the oil-cup, which screws into the cap-ring H and supplies the oil to the interior of the fifth-wheel.

Normally there are spaces between the vertical flanges of the cap-ring and the vertical faces of the base-ring, so that said flanges and faces do not come in contact except when an overstrain comes upon the cap-ring, so that there is frictional contact only between the rib or ring and groove.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to see 1s The combination,with the base-ring having the middle V-groove in its upper face, of the cap-ring having the vertically-depending side flanges'disposed to formspaces between the vertical walls of the base-ring and the vertical flanges of the cap-ring, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

his BENJAMIN F. X GORSUCH.

mark.

Witnesses:

CHRISTOPHER EMIGH, U. G. LEHMAN.

ure by Letters Patent, 

